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Justin Blanton | Create a simple timer using LaunchBar and AppleScript
This is brilliant. I often feel the need for a quick timer like this, but a standalone application feels like overkill. Not only does using a timer mean that you don't miss something because you get wrapped up in work, but it also means that you are free to get wrapped up in work without looking at your watch every two minutes, worrying that you'll forget to do something.
launchbar  timer  macosx  applescript  gtd 
march 2010
Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids – Quix
Very cool idea: a kind of bookmarklet commandline for your browser. This replaces a load of bookmarklets for me, so should make the bookmarks bar a bit less crowded.
bookmarklet  tools  browser  web 
january 2010
MagicPrefs
I'm thinking about getting a Magic Mouse with some Christmas money, and this looks like a promising way to expand the capabilities a bit.
mac  magicmouse  software  osx 
january 2010
Panasonic Lumix GF1 Field Test — 16 Days in the Himalayas
I'm not in the market for a new camera, but this essay and the gorgeous photos accompanying it (particularly the portraits) really makes me want a Lumix GF1.
cameras  photography  review  panasonic 
december 2009
SwitchEasy CapsuleRebel
iPhone cases are two a penny, but I've used this one for a while now and really like it. It offers quite a lot of protection without bulk, but also improves your grip on the phone significantly.
iphone  accessories  cases 
december 2009
ggplot2
A very elegant and sophisticated plotting package for R. Looks a lot easier to use than the basic graphics package once you've mastered the language.
r  statistics  graphics  software  science 
december 2009
Digital_Academic_Workflow
An interesting workflow for collecting references, making notes and assembling a paper, on a Mac. I've just upgraded to DEVONthink 2, and am loving it. Now I'm tempted by Sente too.
academic  notes  pdf  research  software  writing  workflow 
november 2009
Basic Maths
Nice clean grid based theme for Wordpress
blog  webdesign  wordpress  cms  blog_  webdesign_  wordpress_ 
november 2009
DropLook • Jazzio Labs
QuickLook is so convenient (particularly for Word .doc files) that I've often found myself wanting to keep a QuickLook window or two open while I switch apps. This is the solution to that problem, it seems.
macosx  software  utilities  quicklook 
november 2009
Spider Camera Holster
I like the idea of this system for keeping your camera close at hand but secure, though it's a bit pricey. Secretly, I'd just like to look like a cowgirl :-)
photography  camera  accessories  equipment 
november 2009
How to write a blog using Google Wave Robot for Posterous - Western Bridge over Google Wave
Instructions for posting to Posterous from Google Wave. Since you can easily email Posterous with regular email, I guess this isn't too earth-shattering, but it's a hint of the kind of functionality that Wave will provide once it's up and running properly.
blogging-tools  googlewave  posterous 
november 2009
JustNotes
This looks like a nice, lightweight and attractive app for accessing your Simplenote notes on the desktop. Though the Simplenote website is pretty good as it is.
macosx  iphone  notes 
october 2009
System Records. Independant specialist music store.
An interesting catalogue of unusual and hard to find CDs, DVDs and vinyl.
music  cd  vinyl 
october 2009
Email Service Guide – Interview with Jeremy Howard of FastMail.FM
Interesting interview with Jeremy Howard of Fastmail.fm. I've been with them nearly a year now, and I wouldn't go back to another service provider as my mail email host. Brilliant reliability, features and flexibility.
email  fastmail  services 
october 2009
Use Dropbox to Create a Yojimbo iPhone App
Nifty hint that could be extended to do fancier stuff. I must say that I think the new Dropbox iPhone client is brilliant. Being able to view and/or email a link to a document to someone while on the move will probably save my vegetarian bacon one of these days.
iphone  database  dropbox 
october 2009
thebestcamera.com - iPhone App
There are loads of camera/filter apps around, but this looks like a nice balance of ease of use and good results. Just wish it shared to Flickr too, though.
iphone  photography  apps  camera 
september 2009
TimeMachineEditor
Simple but very useful utility to allow you to schedule Time Machine backups whenever you want: you can use an interval (every n hours) or at calendar intervals.
macosx  backup  utility  tools  time-machine 
september 2009
focus booster live - the pomodoro technique
A simple, but nicely designed web app to start a work/break timer to help you focus on what you should be doing. Everynow and again when my brain gets all squirrelly, I find these kinds of timers useful.
software  web2.0  lifehacks  timer  tracker  productivity 
september 2009
Using Xephyr - awesome
I had no idea that this utility existed. Looks like a very useful way to debug changes to awesome config files without messing up a working, running version.
linux  archlinux  awesome  testing  config 
september 2009
Wicked - awesome
Setting up wicked widgets in awesome.
linux  tips  howto  awesome  windowmanager  config 
september 2009
Baseline - a designer framework by ProjetUrbain.com
Looks like an interesting project. I'm all for these kinds of framework kits to make designing web pages easier for those of us who are artistically-challenged.
design  web-design  css  framework  html  typography 
september 2009
EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
Marks revisions by each author in real-time, like SubEthaEdit.
editors  web2.0  web-app  writing  sharing 
september 2009
Shareaholic for Firefox - The browser add-on extension to share, tweet, bookmark, save and e-mail web pages quickly
If you use Firefox, this saves having a collection of other bookmarklets or toolbar buttons for a variety of services.
browser  social_networking  extension  plugin  bookmarks  software  sharing 
september 2009
Dario Taraborelli: The Beauty of LaTeX
Good introduction to typography using LaTeX, with some gorgeous examples.
latex  mac  font  design 
september 2009
kung fu grippe: Alpine messaging system is fast and easy
Looks like Merlin is tempted by Alpine too. Go for it Merlin - you won't regret it!
alpine  email  command-line 
august 2009
Revolutions
Collection of tips and information about using R and other news about statistics.
academic  statistics  R 
august 2009
HOWTO make a plush cell model
Nice mitochondria!
academic  science  howto  cool 
august 2009
Alpine on Mac OS X
Useful tips on installing and configuring Alpine on Mac OS X.
email  command-line  mac  unix  pine 
august 2009
The Random Cat Project
"Here at the Random Cat Project we know that when a cat crosses our path, it’s always lucky. Nothing enlivens a stroll like a chance encounter with a friendly feline, so we’ve been recording our random meetings with cats unknown for years now in photos and videos, and we want to add your Random Cat Encounters too."
cat  photographs  video 
august 2009
mezzoblue § Chalkwork HTML Royalty-free Icons
Very nice free icon set.
design  web-development  webapp  html 
august 2009
Advice on designing scientific posters
"And it gets worse: meeting organizers will invariably sandwich your poster between two posters that are infinitely more entertaining, such as "Teaching house cats to perform cold fusion" and "Mating preferences in extraordinarily adorable red pandas." In such a situation, your poster must be interesting and visually slick if you hope to attract viewers."
academia  science  poster  design  tips 
august 2009
Snippet App
Neat little menu bar app that collects code snippets (with syntax highlighting and tags) and lets you search for them and paste them into new documents.
macosx  coding  utility  software 
july 2009
Pukka 1.8: now with search! | Code Sorcery Workshop
A new version of Pukka, the Mac OS X Delicious posting application. I've always loved the posting UI of Pukka, but found the searching aspects a bit lacking. This is fixed very nicely in the new version, with very fast search from the menu bar.
delicious  macosx  software 
july 2009
Aptonic Software - Dropzone
Very interesting app which provides custom 'Destinations' to perform handy tasks. It's nothing you couldn't do with an Applescript, but it's very slick and easy to use. Even better, it has a brilliant API with which you can create Destinations in Ruby. It's simple, but really powerful.
macosx  software  productivity  utility  ruby  dropzone 
july 2009
Hivelogic - Deploying ExpressionEngine from GitHub with Capistrano
Very clear, step-by-step guide to managing and ExpressionEngine site with git and Capistrano. I might try this some time, as it would make messing about with templates and so on much easier and - more importantly - undoable.
git  tutorial  howto  php  expressionengine  deployment 
july 2009
Posterous
I'm testing out Posterous as a way to post to multiple sites at the same time. ...
social_networking  photography  tumblr 
july 2009
Hivelogic - Shrimp
URL shortening plugin for ExpressionEngine.
programming  plugin  ee  url  shorturl 
june 2009
How to force Safari 4 to open links in a new Tab instead of a new Window : Switching To Mac
The fact that Safari opens target="_blank" links in new windows, not new tabs as per the preferences has bugged me for ages. This tip fixes that with a simple command line defaults command. Brilliant. It really improves the use of Google Reader and Fever.
macosx  software  tips  safari  tabs 
june 2009
SCIENCE SCOUTS
Science merit badges. Some of the stories that go along with the badges are hilarious, particularly the ones which involve blowing things up accidentally, or causing the building to be evacuated. I'm eligible for a few myself, but you'll have to guess which!
science  geek  funny  badges  awesome 
june 2009
jQuery Sparklines
This is incredibly cool: generate sparkline graphs using only jQuery and CSS. I need an excuse to use this somewhere.
web  development  css  cool  javascript  jquery  graphs  visualization 
june 2009
Andreas Klostermaier : Stimulus - The OSX Alpha Geek desktop browse
This is a pretty impressive desktop, and one of the best uses of GeekTool I've ever seen.
cool  productivity  macosx  geektool  hack 
may 2009
Mozilla Labs Jetpack
A very interesting and accessible-looking project, showing once again how brilliant jQuery is.
browser  firefox  extension  jquery  plugin  mozilla  development 
may 2009
Postage - Send postcards from your iPhone
"Postage for the iPhone allows you to easily create beautiful electronic postcards from your photos and send them by email to your friends and family." This looks gorgeous. I've mourned the loss of the .Mac (now MobileMe) e-cards, so this looks like a great replacement.
iphone  software  design  macosx 
may 2009
rush
This looks like a really interesting project: a pure Ruby shell. I don't write Unix shell scripts often enough to remember the syntax clearly, so a Ruby shell would simplify things a lot.
ruby  unix  shell  scripting  commandline 
may 2009
State of the Art - With a Private MiFi Hot Spot, Be Online Wherever You Like - NYTimes.com
"But imagine if you could get online anywhere you liked — in a taxi, on the beach, in a hotel with disgustingly overpriced Wi-Fi — without messing around with cellular modems. What if you had a personal Wi-Fi bubble, a private hot spot, that followed you everywhere you go?"
wifi  web  technology  gadget 
may 2009
Cucumber - Making BDD fun
Haven't tried this with ruby yet, but Cucumber looks like a nice complement to RSpec for BDD.
ruby  rails  programming  bdd  testing 
may 2009
Font Squirrel | Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.
Great collection of free fonts.
design  development  resources  typography  font 
may 2009
Andrew’s Blog » Using multiple Apache virtual hosts on a development machine - Just another WordPress weblog
How to set up virtual hosts for development on your local machine.
web-development  webapps  macosx  apache  howto 
may 2009
Photojojo » Black and White Conversion: The Best Ways to Turn Color Digital Photos Into Beautiful B&W
Useful guide to producing good black and white images from colour ones. I tend to use Aperture's tool for this now, which offers a lot of control, but this is handy if you don't use Aperture.
photography  photoshop  tutorials  blackandwhite  tips 
may 2009
Tweet this Flickr photo - using the new Flic.kr URL shortening service
I had no idea you could do this, but it's an excellent tip for when you want to link to Flickr photos on Twitter or IM. (via @dubh)
photography  web  social_networking  twitter  tips 
april 2009
Bagelturf - Create An Aperture Vault On A Networked Drive
The trick for getting your vaults on to networked rather than local drives.
software  howto  apple  photography  aperture  backup 
april 2009
Photojojo » 12 Ways to Use Your Camera as a Tool
Some good ideas here. A couple of times, I've used my iPhone to snap a picture of a train timetable at the station for later use. Quite handy.
photography  gtd  geek 
april 2009
Rowmote
This is a great idea. I need to remember about it for when I (one day!) get a Mac Mini media centre set up.
software  apple  iphone  remote 
march 2009
Stickyscreen
A simple but cool idea: type a reminder into the big sticky note and set it as your home page, so that your mantra or reminder to put the bins out is in front of your face.
web  gtd  cool  productivity  webapps  post-it 
march 2009
Matt & Adina :: Backpack Scripts for LaunchBar
Example scripts for sending stuff direct to Backpack pages from Launchbar. If you find the list ID from the page source, you can send items to specific lists on the page. If you make a collection of appropriately named scripts, you can quickly add things to Backpack without visiting the web page. Very nice!
applescript  backpack  macosx  gtd  launchbar 
march 2009
Sonzea - Syncopation
Useful looking app to sync music files in iTunes between different machines on your network.
macosx  software  apple  music  utility  mp3  sharing 
march 2009
mekentosj.com | Papers 1.9
New version of Papers with an iPhone companion application. Can't wait to try it out. Colleagues without Macs are always very jealous when they see me using Papers.
academia  science  software  education  reference  bibliography 
february 2009
White Noise MP3s
A great idea for when you need to focus. I'm not sure about the sound of an air conditioner, but the natural sounds like wind, waves and water are wonderful.
audio  gtd  focus 
february 2009
My Git Workflow
Nice example of a git workflow.
git  development  vcs  coding  tips 
january 2009
git ready » daily tips for the noob to the guru
Daily git tips for everyone. I'm still learning about all the glorious ins and outs of git, so this should be a handy resource.
tips  howto  git  vcs  programming  coding 
january 2009
Light Lane - Concept from Altitude’s Alex Tee and Evan Gant
This is a completely brilliant idea, and I want one now: a bike mounted, ground-firing laser to 'paint' a bike lane in light either side of a cyclist which moves with them. Did I mention it had a laser?
design  hardware  bike  safety  cycling 
january 2009
Show Git dirty state (and branch) in the prompt – The Pug Automatic
Excellent hack for getting git information into the command prompt in the terminal. My fork of the gist is here: http://gist.github.com/47541
tips  bash  shell  git  hack 
january 2009
Colorful Bokeh Effect in Pixelmator | Abduzeedo
Nice to see a tutorial using Pixelmator rather than Photoshop. This gives a very nice effect. I've always wondered how to use the Quartz Composer generators.
howto  design  pixelmator  tutorials  bokeh 
january 2009
Ada Lovelace Day — Bringing women in technology to the fore
"If women need female role models, let’s come together to highlight the women in technology that we look up to. Let’s create new role models and make sure that whenever the question “Who are the leading women in tech?” is asked, that we all have a list of candidates on the tips of our tongues.
technology  women 
january 2009
Tweet! Put Twitter on your site with this simple, unobtrusive jQuery widget
Useful plugin to list Twitters on your site if you have a static page.
javascript  jquery  plugins  widget  twitter 
december 2008
LaunchBar 5 Beta
Excellent update to LaunchBar. The clipboard history feature in particular is very nicely done, and the calculator has become much more powerful as it can now be invoked with its own hotkey, and uses the *nix utility bc.
software  utility  mac  productivity  launcher 
december 2008
Magic/Replace - Data Cleanup for Everyone from Dabble DB
This looks like it would be very handy at times: just paste in date (or upload a CSV, XLS or TSV file), change the format of individual cells and it applies those changes intelligently to all the other rows. At the end, it cleans up the file and lets you submit an email address to get the new file sent to.
web  tools  utilities  data  spreadsheet  webapp 
december 2008
Recreating Robert Howlett's camera
Photographer David White recreated the camera that Robert Howlett used to take the famous portrait of Brunel standing if front of a cascade of huge chains. White's series of photographs of Brunel's various works around the country are wonderful and the long exposure times filter out fast moving things leaving only Brunel's wonderful, solid architecture. I'd love to see the prints in person.
photography  architecture  victorian 
november 2008
The Smoking Apples Magazine
A new e-magazine in PDF format. Great quality design and good articles and reviews. It even introduced me to a few new applications which I hadn't heard of before (rare for me, because I read so many Mac-related sites).
magazine  apple  review  products 
november 2008
GenderAnalyzer - Determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman
"We think http://www.rousette.org.uk/blog/ is written by a man."
web  blogs  analysis  funny 
november 2008
Installing Arch for Beginners
I've just installed Arch on VMFusion for a work project, and I'm really impressed with it. It's very fast and the fact that it installs very little be default is a strength rather than a weakness, particularly when want it to be as light as possible. I'm quite proud of myself for installing and configuring X11 myself!
linux  howto  distro 
october 2008
PLoS Biology - PLoS Biology at 5: The Future Is Open Access
"On the 13th of October in 2003, with the first issue of PLoS Biology, the Public Library of Science realized its transformation from a grassroots organization of scientists to a publisher. Our fledgling website received over a million hits within its first hour, and major international newspapers and news outlets ran stories about the journal, about science communication in general, and about our founders—working scientists who had the temerity to take on the traditional publishing world and who pledged to lead a revolution in scholarly communication... "
academia  journal  open_access 
october 2008
more brain > blog.html: Using Xcode with Git
I've been trying to figure out how to do this for a while. The .gitattributes bit is the really crucial bit that I was missing.
git  development  mac  xcode  cocoa  coding 
october 2008
MailActOn
New version of MailActOn with some great new features for ad-hoc moving/copying of messages, even if there's no rule in place. I rely on this with Mail, and find it invaluable when you have multiple accounts.
software  apple  email 
october 2008
Apple - MacBook - Design, pg. 2
"Take the thumbscoop, for example. It’s the indentation that allows you to open the display. If the scoop is too deep, you put too much pressure on the display to open it. If it’s too shallow, you struggle to open the display. It may seem incidental, but if the thumbscoop is well designed, it makes the difference between a bad experience and a good one. The challenge of the thumbscoop was to create a crisply machined scoop that was still comfortable to use. The designers at Apple worked on hundreds of versions of the thumbscoop — even examining them under an electron microscope — to get it right."
apple  design  macbook 
october 2008
Stuff I love: Muji Chronotebook — jackcheng.com
A great, simple idea: forget about the grids of traditional diaries or day planners and have a blank page with an analogue clock outline in the centre, on which you can mark off your appointments. Then the rest of the page is free to do whatever you want with. It acknowledges the fact that the stuff we do tends not to be evenly distributed over the day.
design  productivity  notebook  organization  cool 
october 2008
Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's Library
Drool. Forget your fancy home cinemas, if I had millions of pounds to spend, I'd build a library just like this, assuming that I had a home bigger than this library, which I currently don't.
inspiration  books  technology  geek  design 
october 2008
How I Learned to Code - PaulStamatiou.com
As a not very well self-taught programmer (I blame the teacher!), I'm always curious about what people learn in an official CS education.
coding  development  programming 
october 2008
Cocoa Is My Girlfriend » Cocoa Touch Tutorial: iPhone Application Example
Beginners tutorial on making iPhone applications. Long live the NDA! It's great that developers can now share these kinds of tips.
apple  iphone  cocoa  development 
october 2008
Graph Paper | Konigi
Downloadable graph paper of various kinds for sketches and website layouts.
webdesign  graph  tools  resources 
september 2008
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